| Eight Ball Deluxe / IPD No. 762 / April, 1981 / 4 Players | [ Submit Changes ] |
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This original version EBD differs from the later Bally/Midway version as follows:
1) Apron (cardholder) is yellow/white, not black.
2) Front of cabinet has same art theme as sides, not solid black.
3) Backbox has white wood frame around backglass.
4) Playfield lamps are individual light sockets and not mounted on PCB boards.
5) Backglass is not hinged and lifts completely out of backbox.
6) Coin door sticker indicates Bally, not Bally Midway.
Actual measured weight: 242 lbs (includes legs).
First game from this manufacturer to use wedge sockets and #555 bulbs in production. Bally had tested wedge sockets using #444 bulbs on a small portion of the production run of an earlier game, Bally's 1978 'The Six Million Dollar Man'.
Roughly 400 of the first games produced had white pop bumper caps and bodies instead of the more familiar golden ones. Pictured here is a game with serial number 1394 having these white pop bumpers.
Some of the first games had plastic playfields. The one pictured here is serial number 1007. It has the white pop bumper bodies but its bumper caps were replaced with the later version.
This game was very successful, and was produced again as Model 0B87, Bally Midway's 1984 'Eight Ball Deluxe'.
, pages 44-45The Pinball Compendium 1970-1981
, page 194The Complete Pinball Book
, pages 108, 117, 197, and 309Mike Pacak's Pinball Flyer Reference Book A-F
Arcade Treasures
, page 118Pinball Art
, page 80Pinball The Lure of the Silverball, page 88
Pinball (Zsolnay), page 42
Pinball (Ciuffo)
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